Ok, here's the deal. Ten Tors is an annual event that takes place every year on the national park of Dart moor. It's a challenge aimed at young people, and it's run by the army.
Teams can choose to walk 35, 45, or 55 mile routes. That's not important, what is, is that when training; teams are told safety precautions. For example not to pick anything
up from the moor, as it could be live ammunition or explosives used by the British M.O.D during training. Now when the army use live ammunition, the fly a red flag from hills known as Tors, if a team were to see a red flag being flown then they would, if having any sense, bypass that range. Now me and my man 'Boats' once saw a flag under some rocks folded up, we left it and didn't think anything of it. Until the summer of 2007 after watching too many movies and reading too many books, we got planning a prank for 2008 ten Tors
This prank had to be worthwhile, safe, and not involve us getting caught. So we put a lot of planning into it and slowly collected pieces of equipment that we would use.
Then came May, the month of the Ten Tors, our school mates were training hard, we had to keep quiet and wish them luck. Thursday lunchtime (Thursday before Ten Tors weekend) me and 'Boats' walked into town and into a home hardware shop, we bought about 2 foot of small link chain, and a small padlock. The bank holiday before we had done a recon walk around Dart moor, we also picked up the red flag from a range at the north west of Dart moor, at a Tor called 'Hare Tor' near Lydford. We then walked north to 'Yes Tor' and stashed the flag under some rocks on the west side of 'Yes Tor'. We got to Dartmoor on the Friday of the weekend and set up camp, we waited till night fall and started walking to where we stashed the flag. It was a fair way to walk in the dark. We were following a path when we saw headlamps about 300m/400m away, it was hard to tell. These headlamps came closer and me and 'Boats' were beginning to brick it. We
held our heads down after hitting the dirt, and waited about 15 minutes for them to pass. They didn't pass, but we decided they were doing some last moment preps for the starting line tomorrow. We got to the flag with out any problems, and walked back to 'Row Tor' we sprayed the poles hinges with WD40 to stay silent and let it down, the flag was on a big counter weight and didn't have a pulley to fly the flag but metal loops in which we just clipped the flag to. We very carefully lifted the pole back up. The flag was flying in the wind perfectly. I tapped in the coordinates for our camp in the GPS and we just legged it back to camp and got our heads down. At 5.00am the army played a mix tape to wake everyone up, this was awful music.
The footage you will see in the video will finish our story, but I would like to thank 'Boats' for being as crazy as I am; The Army for leaving their flag out; the energy drink for stopping me collapse; And everyone who got pranked by our prank. Much Love xxx
P.S two Dart moor rangers stopped buy as we were packing up, they were really nice guys actually, but apparently we weren't aloud to camp in sight of the army camp, or 100m from a road. Weird rules but they must have a reason. Anyway we asked these two guys why the flag was up and we also made sure we knew what it meant, they agreed it meant live fire. They thought it was either a cock up with the army, or a joke from with in the army. Either way
We got away with it, and we will have another prank in the making.
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